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Vulcan's Forge Anda Fingal's Cave
William B. Ashworth
其他書名
Volcanoes, Basalt, and the Discovery of Geological Time
出版Linda Hall Library, 2004-12
主題Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Earth Sciences / Earthquakes & Volcanoes
ISBN09763590069780976359005
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4JNQAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋An Exhibition of Rare Publications from the Collections of the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology.Vulcan's Forge was a name given to the eruptive island of Vulcano, just north of Sicily, while Fingals Cave is a spectacular formation of basalt columns on the island of Staffa in the Scottish Hebrides. The idea of a geological time scale of immense duration developed in the early nineteenth century as a direct result of the realization that basalt is a volcanic rock. This catalog of a rare book exhibition tells the story of the role of volcanoes and basalt in the discovery of geological time through a selection of rare books and journals spanning the period 1565-1835. The stunning illustrations from the early books on volcanoes and basalt are some of the most beautiful, and influential, in all of geology.